YouTube is experimenting with paywalling 4K video resolution for videos, making it exclusive to subscribers of YouTube Premium. Reports of this experiment hitting some users have been popping up for the past month. Last month, some users saw as many as 10 unskippable ads before a video. Google later called the move an ‘experiment’ that it ‘concluded,’ which apparently means it’s not happening. Google’s recently killed game-streaming service, Stadia, had a similar billing setup, where 4K was a premium add-on. We asked Google PR for comment, but the company said it has nothing to share right now. We could see something similar happen to the idea of pay walling the 4K resolution. . . .
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